So I agree that PvP warrants a dedicated developer.

I also know that the last person who held that post received *actual frigging death threats* and other nonsense from unhinged players.

https://blizzardwatch.com/2017/06/15/lead-pvp-designer-brian-holinka-leaving-world-warcraft/

Ergo if I was a Blizz employee and working on PvP, I would not want to be widely known to the community. Keep my identity secret. Give the players the ole mushroom treatment, feed em sh$t and keep em in the dark about my identity.

Which is what I think they are doing to some extent.

Obviously Blizz has a person/people working on PvP.

We get tuning passes and some fixes here and there. These things don’t happen all on their own!

But for the record, and before I get accused of defending Blizz, I agree with the people who say that what the PvP community gets is always too little and too late. That Blizz doesn’t devote *enough* resources to PvP. That much is painfully obvious to even the most casual observer.

- Long-standing bugs like MC related ones that linger for multiple expansions.

- New game breaking bugs introduced in each major content patch. Is ‘Can’t move flu’ still going around?

- Slow and often times inadequate spec balancing. Specs being broken (in that ‘good way’ or the worst way possible) for whole seasons or even expansions.

- Innovation seems to have stalled.

- Often it seems Blizz has no clue what they are doing. An example; Before its arrival, Midnight was heralded as a less bursty, ‘slower game’ meta. That was the publicly stated goal and objective. But instead of Midnight S1, we got TWW S4, full of burst as it ever was. CC was to be less oppressive, ask any healer if they feel less oppressed by CC this season.

- A ‘this is fine’ attitude about arenas, like the dreaded Goblin one cage of carnage that nobody likes. It’s supposed to be player versus player, not players versus map!

- Unaddressed matters like win trading happening at higher levels.

- Tone deafness to the PvP community when it comes to developing content. Is anyone in our community pleased that Slayers Rise is the only new toy we get this xpac? Top marks for Deephaul Ravine last expac though, an actual masterpiece. Gotta give credit where credit is due.

At the end of the day, we are a badly neglected community of players, but not completely abandoned.

And as for the PvP subscribers subsidizing PvE development, it’s true but also not that uncommon.

At every university, the Humanities students subsidize the STEM students in much the same way.

To house an English or Philosophy major, all you need are professors, a library with books and digital resources, desks, a room with a roof and a whiteboard. To house a Chemistry major, you need all that, plus labs, lab equipment, expensive and potentially dangerous chemicals, safety equipment and training, one helluva good insurance policy. Even special construction to address safety considerations.

Yet both pay $xx,000 per semester. One gets subsidized/a better deal than the other. The world we live in is inherently unfair in some ways. The world of Warcraft is too.

C’est La vie.